{"id":444889,"date":"2017-12-08T03:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T03:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/major-mahama-bill-to-be-reviewed-defence-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T03:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T03:41:03","slug":"major-mahama-bill-to-be-reviewed-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/08\/major-mahama-bill-to-be-reviewed-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Mahama Bill to be reviewed &#8211; Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  8 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>rainbowradioonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/82555772.295.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Mahamasep20\" title=\"Captain Mahamasep20\" width=\"295\" height=\"209\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Late Major Maxwell Mahama<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512704463_421_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has announced the Major Mahama Bill which was recently passed into law, will be amended. <\/p>\n<p>Taking his turn at the meet the press series today [Thursday] the minister said the suggestions by some individuals for the bill to be expanded to cover others were a great decision.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis suggestion is worth considering, and we\u2019re putting a memo together to have a discussion with the Commander in Chief who\u2019s the President so that we can take a relook at it. But let me tell you that the Armed Forces regulations, make provision very explicitly for people who get maimed, people who die or get incapacitated, or suffer some any form of injury, there are compensation for everyone of them. So it\u2019s not as if there\u2019s nothing. <\/p>\n<p>But it looks like the people of Ghana want a specific law so that we can amend the Armed Forces regulations and set up a specific law for those category of persons who die. I think it\u2019s worthwhile considering and we\u2019ll do that and bring it. Only what I\u2019ll tell you is that we the people must fund it.  <\/p>\n<p>He added: If every November, we all decide to give 0.05% of our salaries which is the Veterans month for that fund I\u2019ll be very happy and I\u2019m saying let\u2019s champion that course, 0\/05% of our salaries.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Parliament in November approved a bill that will make the spouse and children of Major Maxwell Mahama the state\u2019s responsibility.     <\/p>\n<p>The bill was introduced in Parliament Tuesday, October 24 in fulfilment of President Nana Akufo-Addo&#8217;s promise to the family of Major  Mahama, a military officer lynched by a mob in Denkyira-Obuasi now New Oboase.  <\/p>\n<p>The soldier was murdered in May 2017 after residents of the Central Region town allegedly mistook him for an armed robber.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 8 December 2017 Source: rainbowradioonline.com 2017-12-08 Late Major Maxwell Mahama Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has announced the Major Mahama Bill which was recently passed into law, will be amended. 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